Seeming to feel this* blow, with flaming top a b -But, as we often see, against some storm, (51) Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune! All you gods, * So, 4tos. his 1623,32. 1623, 32. Break all the spokes and fellies* from her wheel,(52) fallies, POL. This is too long. HAM. It shall to the barber's with your beard.Pr'ythee, say on:-He's for a jig, or a tale of bawdry, (53) or he sleeps:-say on: come to Hecuba. 1 PLAY. But who, O who had seen the mobled* * ah woe! queen (34) HAM. The mobled* queen? 4tos. *inobled, 1623. id. #id. POL. That's good; mobled queen is good. 1 PLAY. Run barefoot up and down, threat'ning * flames, 4tos. the flame* With bisson rheum; (55) a clout about* that head, upon 4tos. His sword seem'd i' the air to stick, &c.] As represented in tapestry hangings, the furniture of the age, in which, as Mr. Malone observes, their swords "stick in the air and do nothing." the rack] The clouds or congregated vapour. See Temp. IV. 1. Prosp. where, O. C. of this, 4tos. much, 4tos. Where late the diadem stood; and, for a robe, A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up; But if the gods themselves did see her then, POL. Look, whether he has not turned his colour, and has tears in's eyes.-Pr'ythee, no more.(57) * HAM. 'Tis well; I'll have thee speak out the rest soon.-Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used; for they are the abstract, and brief chronicles, of the time: After your death you were better have a bad epitaph, than their ill report while you live. POL. My lord, I will use them according to their desert. HAM. God's bodikin, man,* better: Use every man after his desert, and who shall 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity: The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. Take them in. POL. Come, sirs. [Exit POLONIUS with some of the Players. HAM. Follow him, friends: we'll hear a play tomorrow. Dost thou hear me, old friend; can you play the murder of Gonzago? 1 PLAY. Ay, my lord. HAM. We'll have it to-morrow night. You could, for a need, study a speech (5) of some dozen or sixteen lines, which I would set down, and insert in't? could you not? 1 PLAY. Ay, my lord. HAM. Very well.-Follow that lord; and look you mock him not. [Exit Player.] My good friends, [To Ros. and GUIL.] I'll leave you till night you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord! [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILdenstern. * HAM. Ay, so, God be wi' you:*-Now I am alone. buy'ye, O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous, (59) that this player here, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting, (61) What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, (64) A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? • defeat was made] Overthrow. See M. ado, &c. IV. 1. Leon. 1623, 32. buy to, 4tos. where, O. C. * of this, 4tos. • much, 4tos. Where late the diadem stood; and, for a robe, A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up; nounc'd: But if the gods themselves did see her then, ven, And passion in the gods.(56) * POL. Look, whether he has not turned his colour, and has tears in's eyes. -Pr'ythee, no more.(57) * HAM. 'Tis well; I'll have thee speak out the rest soon.-Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used; for they are the abstract, and brief chronicles, of the time: After your death you were better have a bad epitaph, than their ill report while you live. POL. My lord, I will use them according to their desert. HAM. God's bodikin, man,* better: Use every man after his desert, and who shall 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity: The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. Take them in. POL. Come, sirs. [Exit POLONIUS with some of the Players. HAM. Follow him, friends: we'll hear a play tomorrow. Dost thou hear me, old friend; can you play the murder of Gonzago? 1 PLAY. Ay, my lord. HAM. We'll have it to-morrow night. You could, for a need, study a speech (58) of some dozen or sixteen lines, which I would set down, and insert in't? could you not? 1 PLAY. Ay, my lord. HAM. Very well.-Follow that lord; and look you mock him not. [Exit Player.] My good friends, [To Ros. and GUIL.] I'll leave you till night you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord! [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUIldenstern. HAM. Ay, so, God be wi' you:*-Now I am alone. buy've, O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous, (59) that this player here, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting, (61) What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do, Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? • defeat was made] Overthrow. See M. ado, &c. IV. 1. Leon. 1623, 32. buy to, 4tos. |